the Fastest Open-Wheel War in America: Turbo Power, Team Owners, Superstars, and Championship That Tore Itself Apart

For more than a decade, American open-wheel racing fought itself at full speed. The Fastest Open-Wheel War in America tells the fact-based story of the championship split that divided teams, drivers, manufacturers, sponsors, broadcasters, and fans. What began as a struggle over control, cost, access, and the future of the sport became one of the most consequential conflicts in modern motor racing history. From the rise of the team-owner era to the battle over the great 500-mile race in Indianapolis, from turbocharged technical brilliance to oval-focused reinvention, from superstar drivers and powerful team owners to bankruptcy, survival, and eventual reunification, this book follows the people and decisions that reshaped American open-wheel racing. It is a story of speed, money, politics, loyalty, ambition, and loss. It is also the story of how one sport, divided between rival visions of its own identity, spent twelve years discovering that its greatest race, its strongest teams, its best drivers, and its clearest future belonged together.